The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-12
FLORIDA.

School opened at Fort Ogden Wednesday
with So pupils.
A daily boat will run between Punta
Gorda and Pine Island
Several new buildings will be erected at
Dade City at an early day.
Fort Meyers gives - majority for the dry
ticket Lee county will 90 dry sure
Oranges are already being shipped in
small quantities. They are not fully ripe
yet.
| The beef canning factory, at Fort Ogden,
will add from sixty TO 100 families to the
town.
A young farmer named Wesley Bowling
was thrown from his horse at Dade City
| Sunday and killed.
| Col Isaac Trabue met the County Com
missioners Monday and pleaded reduction
in the assessment on Trabue property.
At Orange City one of Mr.. Glisson'S little
| boys put cowpea into his ear, and DR..
Allyn was compelled to give him chloro-
| form before he could remove it.
G.. W. Tucker, one of Dade City's wealth
| lest citizens and largest cattle men, has,
within the last few weeks, shipped by the
Florida Railway and Navigation, shirty-two
loads of beef cattle.
Florence Lancaster, 10 years of age, while
fishing in the surf across from Smyrna last
week, caught a bass weighing twenty-seyen
pounds. Mr. Austin, standing near by,
brought it to shore for her.
The body of Mrs Sporlongs, who was
drowned at st. Augustine Wednesday night,
was found near Moultrie, several miles from
the city, Monday. The woman had consid-
cradle money about her person.
N. S. Collins, of the Lake City water
works, and also of the Lake City Bank, will
be ready to light the streets and business
houses with electricity as soon as he gets the
company's new plant in operation.
At jacksonville the firm of Farwell &
Page, furniture dealers, has been dissolved
by James A. Fnwells purchasing Fred
erick II. Pages interest in the business.
Mr. Farwen viii continue the business as
heretofore
A petition asking for an election in Volu-
STA county on the whisky question was pre-
sented to and favorably acted upon by the
County Commissioners in session at Enter
prise last week. The election was ordered
to take place the first week in December.
Since the charter for the water works
privileges granted by the Lake City council
to Messrs. Noyes S. Collins q Co. has re-
ceived the approval of the Mayor, prepare
tions have been put on foot tor the early
placing of the plant and pushing the work
of extension.
Philip Chucar, of Fort Myers, died Sun
day He was the son of Gustav Chucar,
who was murdered some time since on
Bright's Island in Matlacha Pass. His
mother and two sisters still reside in Russia
and will wait long for his coming, as it was
his intention to rejoin them had he lived.
AT Ocala Monday, twenty Marion county
lumber and sawmill men met and organized
what is styled the Lumbermen's Protective
Board of Trade of Central Florida. Foster
Park, Parkersburg, Montague, Belleview,
Reddick, Anthony, Citra stanton and Ocala,
of that county, were represented, and also
Oxford, in Sumter, ana Crystal River, in
Citrus county.
The following precincts in Citrus county
heard from give these majorities: Macon
2, wet; Richland 25, wet; San Antonio AZ,
wet; st. Thomas 10, wet; Dade City g. dry
Chipco about IS, dry. -Four precincts tc
hear from are claimed by the drys. Sew
eral votes are challenged at Dade City. The
vote will be very close in the county Both
sides claim victory and both are happy
Ladies were at the polls and everything
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